A team of people who said he was guilty before they investigated have concluded he is still guilty. Ground-breaking. From the link. “Evidence and information available to the committee establishes a good-faith belief that Mr. Trump and others may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts, and that [Eastman’s] legal assistance was used in furtherance of those activities,” Surely Trumps defense can't present a "good faith belief" that his words to the crowd to be "peaceful" was in "good faith".....
Damning information Analysis: The single most damning email exchange in the new January 6 committee filing 10:18 AM EST March 3, 2022 Buried in a court filing late Wednesday from the January 6 committee is an explosive email exchange between Greg Jacob, a top lawyer for then-Vice President Mike Pence, and John Eastman, a lawyer who was working with then-President Donald Trump's legal team, that absolutely nails the culpability of Eastman in the events of that terrible day. The email exchange began on January 5, with Eastman attempting to push the idea that Pence had the constitutional authority to reject certain electors from swing states when the votes were counted in Congress the next day. On January 6 at 12:14 pm ET, as it was becoming increasingly clear that there was a Trump-inspired riot brewing at the US Capitol, Jacob was unequivocal in his rejection of Eastman's theories. "I have run down every legal trail placed before me to its conclusion, and I respectfully conclude that as a legal framework, it is a results-oriented position that you would never support if attempted by the opposition, and essentially entirely made up," Jacob wrote Eastman. "And thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege." To which Eastman responds: "The 'siege' is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so the American people can see for themselves what happened." In his next response, Jacob drops the hammer: "The advice provided has, whether intended or not, functioned as a serpent in the ear of the President of the United States, the most powerful office in the entire world. And here we are." Jacob went on: "Respectfully, it was gravely, gravely irresponsible for you to entice the President with an academic theory that had no legal viability, and that you well know we would lose before any judge who heard and decided the case. And if the courts declined to hear it, I suppose it could only be decided in the streets. The knowing amplification of that theory through numerous surrogates, whipping large numbers of people into a frenzy over something with no chance of ever attaining legal force through actual process of law, has led us to where we are." Yes, that's it exactly. Eastman's infamous memo -- in which he outlined how Pence could overturn the Electoral College results -- was, as Jacob rightly noted, the stuff of debate in a law school class, maybe, but certainly not the framework on which an election should be decided. And Jacob nails the role the memo -- and Eastman more generally -- played in the run-up to January 6. He handed a drowning man a rope. Trump, in the days and weeks after the election, was desperate to find something, anything that would allow him to make the case that a) he hadn't really lost and b) he could stay on as president. It was during that same time period that Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to urge him to overturn the results. "All I want to do is this," Trump told Raffensperger. "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state." Trump was engaged in similar pressure campaigns in other swing states as well. What's so incredibly damning about the Jacob-Eastman email exchange is that the former is utterly convinced that the latter knows that what he is doing is wrong -- and is doing it anyway, with disastrous consequences for the party. The image of Eastman as Iago pouring his poison in the ear of Trump's Othello is a powerful one. Especially when you consider that Jacob wasn't some lawyer working for Democrats. He was the chief counsel to the Republican vice president of the United States. That fact makes his accusations against Eastman all the more powerful. © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc. A WarnerMedia Company. All Rights Reserved.
Yes, we all know Trump thought votes were fraudulent and wanted congress/Pence to investigate. I am not sure what the grand conspiracy is. No one denies that Trump openly wanted the election results challenged because he, and many others, thought the votes were fraudulent. It is not illegal to be wrong on how one would challenge the results. Trump did not form an insurrection and did not plan a coup. He "openly" asked to challenge the results. Again, being wrong on how one would do this is NOT illegal.
Who couldn't see this from a mile away? I'm hearing that Merrick Garland is now investigating Jan. 6 as criminal sedition. Might as well throw away this country if we allow a sitting president to unlawfully try to retain power. Garland can choose his place in history: does he stand WITH the law, or is he a fucking coward who doesn't want to rock the boat and thus paves the way for meaningless elections?
Trump knew it was all bull shit. His own people were telling him this with the exception of Powell, Guiliani, Pillow guy, etc. All of his serious advisors, like Pence, like Barr, etc. told him all along that there was no fraud. Trump knew better. Further, he had already "challenged" the election results with sixty something law suits that never panned out. He had already been to the SC and they refused the case. Texas AG tried to mount a challenge that was also shot down at the SC. Stop pretending he didn't know and stop trying to revise history. He knew.
You see, I am not pretending anything. I take reality for what it is. The day of Jan 6th, Trump stated he thought Pence could stop the count and have congress reject fraudulent votes. So you are now in a corner. Trump knew Pence could not do this and our Democracy was always safe or Trump really was confused on how it works and well, Democracy was still safe because that is not how it works... Which is it? In either case, none of this is illegal. Wrong? Yea. Illegal? No. Did we almost lose our country? No.
Yes they knew what they were doing was illegal. Here’s confirmation in Roger Stone’s own words. https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...tone-documentary-capitol-riot-trump-election/
More evidence Trump and his people know what they asked Pence to do come from John Eastman himself. He texted Pence’s lawyer asking to stop the certification saying he knew it was a felony what’s but worth it to keep Trump in office.
